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Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our sysadmin explained some technical advantages here: https://feddit.org/post/13613230/7063696

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Postgres slowing factor

~~I'm pretty sure one of the best optimised free/libre DBMS's is faster than Python 💀~~

EDIT: skimmed it wrongly, see corrections below

Also no one knows how Piefed scales, since it only has like 350 MAU

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reread it. They're saying "The slowest part is postgres, so even if python is slower than rust it won't make a difference."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is, in theory. In practice, it can make a big difference. Source: Worked professionally with large services built in Python and Rust.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, I also suspect that at a certain scale it would make a difference, but with a single Postgres database and no advanced clustering or so, the real-life performance metrics of a medium sized Lemmy instance strongly point to Postgres being the bottleneck and not the Python or Rust codebase of the rest of the software.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Piefed also uses PostgreSQL. He was mentioning that the limiting factor on either platform is the DB, meaning that the parts written in Python will likely not be a limiting factor.

Piefed also has quite impressive optimizations in other areas as well compared to Lemmy or even Mbin.